🚀 go-pugleaf

ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:

[About dp-2.2-beta]

>   The 2.2-beta version has some minor Makefile/include file problems
>   (Kirk has my diffs for it), and tends to crash when you have an
>   error in the configuration script (deref'ing zero pointers), but
>   works like a charm otherwise, AND IT SUPPORTS LOADABLE KERNEL
>   MODULES... at least half (i.e., you can load them, but if you do
>   the unloading, the system crashes when it tries to do networking
>   again). But I think it's better to only reboot the machine to
>   remove or update the ppp if you want it, than to built a new kernel
>   and reboot the machine :-) Maybe SUN never tested this part of
>   their Kernel code? I think they don't have any loadable network
>   modules of their own.

This is not so much a SUN problem, as me. With the help of Paul Fox
(paul@crisp.demon.co.uk) I tried *really* hard to get the unloading
working, but I was/am having problems with removing routing records
to the interface... as I do not have the SunOS source I cannot see
what I am doing wrong. The code in dp-2.2-beta is almost the latest
that I have, but my time is being spent at the moment getting the
dp package going on 386BSD.

>I used both packages. I like the latter better, because it's less work
>and less to backup if you want to install it, and because I won't get 
>'how is the ppp startup command' phone calls all the time.

The main reason for the loadable modules was to "supplement" the dial-
on-demand support, so that the whole thing could be got going easily.

>BTW: nfs? You might want to completely avoid it. Try mounting a remote
>   filesystem to get the feeling. Basically, you have to avoid
>   anything which does stats because they cause lots of traffic, and
>   anything which does writes because nfs writes always wait for the
>   'written to disk' confirmation from the other side.

I only use NFS for mounting things like gatekeeper.dev.com and so on
for reading, and it is fine. I have not tried writing, but I can
imagine :-)

For those who may be interested or would like to help, I have got to
it all compile on 386BSD (except the kernel drivers of course), and I
will be using the ppp from Brad Parker (brad@cayman.com) as a starting
point. I need pre-alpha testers (like not so much testing as telling
me where I f*cked up). Also, has anyone completed the tunneling driver
that Bill Jolitz included in 0.1 ?

Anyway, enough for now,
-- 
Peter Galbavy
Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
Phone: +44 71 352 7774		E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk